Chapter 9: Cramped

Shen Luzhu was supported by Chu Yi and walked towards the new house in the east wing, the farther she walked, the smaller the sound of coaxing became, and the clearer the sound of Chu Yi reminding her to pay attention to her feet in her ears, no man had ever protected her in such a half-hugging intimate posture in her life, and no one had ever reminded her to be careful with such a low voice in her ear, Shen Luzhu felt that she was more nervous than when she had just visited the church!

Chu Yi took Shen Luzhu to the new house, helped her sit down on the dragon and phoenix quilt sprinkled with jujubes, peanuts, longan and lotus seeds, picked up the weighing rod on the side and picked up the red hijab, looking at the newlywed wife with a crimson face under the hijab, she was a little distracted for a while.

Shen Luzhu felt that his whole person was about to have a fever, and only then did he hear Chu Yi speak: "Cough, your face is so red, is it freezing on the road?" ”

"No, it's a little hot!" Shen Luzhu's hands hidden under his sleeves were tightly clenched together, and he had never been so cramped in his two lives.

Fortunately, at this time, Grandma Chu came in with Chu Xiuxiu with dumplings and wine, and the two ate half-eaten dumplings and drank a glass of wine, and the ceremony was completely over.

Chu Yi was afraid that Shen Luzhu would be hungry, so he brought her food and hot soup, afraid that she would want to wash up later, so he fetched water and put it in the room, telling her to lie down and rest if she was tired.

Shen Luzhu was finally the only one left in the room, and she sat by the kang for a long time before she found her heartbeat that had just stalled!

After a brief rinse and some food and soup, Shen Luzhu listened to the faint noise outside, and couldn't help but be a little bored, and wanted to tidy up the things sent yesterday when he was idle, and looked around, seeing that the furniture and the ten beds of dragon and phoenix quilts had been placed, only the two big wooden boxes were left, probably because they were all Shen Luzhu's personal belongings, so he was not passive, but just covered with a red cloth and placed in a corner of the new house.

Shen Luzhu put his clothes, needlework, cloth and medicine box in different categories, and put the new gifts prepared for the Chu family in the outermost kang cabinet, so that it is easy to take it tomorrow morning, and finally took out two locked small wooden boxes from the bottom of the box, one wooden box is a silver coin copper plate, Shen Luzhu hid it in the innermost part of the kang cabinet, and the other is Shen Luzhu's jewelry, in addition to the wood carved hairpin given by Chu Yi from childhood to everyone, the copper plate that was used as a New Year's coin, The silver jewelry was all inside, and Shen Luzhu locked them in the dark cabinet of the dresser!

After finishing these, seeing that the wedding banquet outside still showed no sign of ending, Shen Luzhu, who had been tossing for a short day, finally couldn't hold it anymore, so he had to change his homely clothes, put away the peanuts and longan on the dragon and phoenix quilt, and lay on one side of the kimono, and entered a dark and sweet dream.

Shen Luzhu didn't know how long he slept this night, when he woke up, it was already dark outside, fortunately, the wedding candle in the house was still burning, Shen Luzhu cut the wick of the candle, just thought about finding two more candles to make the house brighter, and suddenly heard something outside the door, and then saw Chu Yi being helped by Zhao Cheng and Chu Li and walked in, followed by Chu Third Uncle and Chu Xiuxiu.

Seeing this, Shen Luzhu hurriedly greeted him, replaced Chu Li, who was one of the villains, and helped Chu Yi to lie on the kang with Zhao Cheng.

Zhao Cheng and Chu Yi were in the same year, a few months older than Chu Yi, so they called Shen Luzhu's younger siblings: "Chu Yi, he's happy today, he drank a little more, and he wants to trouble his younger siblings to take care of it!" ”

"This is natural, Chu Yi will leave it to me, Brother Zhao has also worked hard for a day today, let's go back and rest early, and let Chu Yi invite you to eat and drink at home another day!"

Zhao Cheng didn't delay, he turned around and walked out of the new house after saying goodbye, there was a more drunk Chu Ping outside, and he also needed him to help the family!

Third Uncle Chu saw that his nephew had been settled, and he didn't want to stay longer, so he asked Chu Xiuxiu and Chu Yi to help bring some hot water and food, so he also went out behind Zhao Cheng on crutches.

Shen Luzhu lit two more candles and put them in the room, and worked together with Chu Li and Chu Xiuxiu to help Chu Yi take off his coat and shoes, and when he saw that it was not early, he asked the two little ones to go back and rest: "The rest of the sister-in-law, sister-in-law can come by herself, it's not early, go back to sleep quickly!" ”

Seeing that Chu Li seemed to be a little uneasy, he coaxed again: "Don't worry, it's okay, go back and sleep in peace, and my sister-in-law will make you something delicious tomorrow morning!" ”

"Then sister-in-law should rest early!"

Seeing that Chu Li went back to the room next to him and closed the door, Shen Luzhu returned to the new house, soaked the veil with hot water, and turned around to wipe Chu Yi's face, when he saw that the drunk and sleepy person woke up at some point, and was sitting on the side of the kang and looking at her!

Shen Luzhu was stunned for a moment, and then walked over to wipe his face and asked him, "Are you awake?" Is there anything wrong with it? ”

Shen Luzhu saw that Chu Yi didn't squeak, but his eyes continued to move with him, a little dazed, so he thought that he should still be drunk, so it was okay, her psychological pressure was a little less.

Shen Luzhu helped Chu Yi wipe his face and hands, and fed him a bowl of sugar water to relieve hangover, just about to put the bowl aside, Chu Yi, who had been silent and obediently cooperated, suddenly reached out and hugged Shen Luzhu into his arms!

Chu Yi is very tall, and he can still keep eye level with Shen Luzhu when he sits on the edge of the kang, and at this moment Shen Luzhu is almost completely embedded in Chu Yi's arms, and his ears are close to Chu Yi's hot face: "Chu Yi, what are you doing!" Chu Yi? ”

Chu Yi still didn't speak, just adjusted the position of his head on Shen Luzhu's shoulder, and then hugged it tighter.

Shen Luzhu was helpless: "Chu Yi, can you let me go first, I have to wash the dishes...... Or you can tell me to put it aside...... I can't just hold it and stand all the time, can you? ”

The answer, of course, is: no!

I don't know if I'm annoyed by what Shen Luzhu said, I just listened to Shen Luzhu, "Ah! With a bang, the whole person was hugged by Chu Yi and fell on the kang!

The night was beautiful, leaving only the candle flame still flickering, and the broken porcelain bowl on the ground!

Early the next morning, before dawn, Shen Luzhu was in Chu Yi's arms, enduring sleepiness and forcibly sobering herself up, she still remembered that she was going to make breakfast for a large family today, and it would be embarrassing if she got up late!

According to the custom of Daqian, the bride needs to prepare a sumptuous breakfast for the whole family on the morning of the second day of the wedding, and then send her own needlework as a new gift after the meal, so as to show her virtue and ability.

As soon as the person in his arms moved, Chu Yi also woke up, he was used to getting up early on weekdays, even if he was drunk yesterday, and sleeping later than usual would not affect anything!

Shen Luzhu was sleepy, and felt that Chu Yi must have pretended to be drunk and deceived himself yesterday, it must be!

Chu Yi saw his newlywed wife's resentful little eyes, so he had to touch his nose, wrapped Shen Luzhu in the quilt, got up and went to the ground by himself, and silently cleaned up the mess on the ground first, so as not to wait for his wife to get up and accidentally prick her foot!

Shen Luzhu rinsed briefly, and hurriedly went to the stove room, originally thought that Chu Yi had something to do before she got up, but after Chu Yi helped her bring the ingredients prepared by her mother's family, not only did she not leave, but sat calmly on the side and lit a fire, Shen Luzhu was naturally happy to have someone to help, so he made it according to the menu that he had thought of a long time ago.

First, boil white rice porridge in the big stove on the side, put a steaming drawer on the porridge, and steam the radish cake made of shredded radish and flour, then beat the eggs and add a small amount of water, then pour the flour, add salt and a little pepper, stir them into a uniform batter, smear the bottom of the pot with lard, and then scoop a spoonful of batter and spread it flat at the bottom of the pot, and bake it into a golden egg cake!

Put the lard residue into a large bowl, sprinkle with five-spice powder and mix well, also put it on the steaming drawer to heat, and then mix two refreshing side dishes, three-color shredded radish and fungus mixed with chives, just doing it and remembering yesterday that Chu Li promised him to make good food, thinking that children should love sweet, and asked Chu Yi to bring all the jujube peanuts that she put away in the room yesterday.

When the white porridge is almost cooked, put the chopped green vegetables into it, add some salt, simmer for a while, and a pot of green vegetable and salty porridge can be out of the pot.

Shen Luzhu washed the pot, added water to the pot and put the picked peanuts, longan, red dates and lotus seeds, and then poured in the washed millet, the time is a little tight, the millet can be cooked faster, and when it comes out of the pot, it is sprinkled with some sugar, it is a pot of sweet and soft red dates and longan lotus seed porridge!

As soon as Shen Luzhu arrived at the hall, he saw that not only the grandfather and grandmother of the Chu family and the third uncle Chu were there, but even Uncle Chu's family was there, I thought that Chu Yi had forgotten to tell himself, and when he turned his head and saw that he seemed to be a little surprised, he couldn't help but be more puzzled!

Separated from the family, no matter how good the relationship is, it is also two families, just relatives, how can there be early in the morning, go to other people's houses to eat the bride Zhang Luo's breakfast relatives, thanks to the amount she made today, and later made more pot of sweet porridge, otherwise how can there be enough to eat!

If this matter spreads, what I know is that there are suddenly six more people, and those who don't know think that the Shen family is slamming the door and not preparing enough ingredients!

Shen Luzhu's breakfast meal is not only full of ingredients, but also meat and vegetarian, hot and cold, two kinds of pasta are prepared, and the porridge is also cooked with sweet and salty flavors, which can be described as very rich!

The Chu family's meals are made by Grandma Chu on weekdays, and most of the breakfast is white porridge with pickle gnocchi, or boil a pot of noodle soup with some salt, and it is a meal when it is hot to drink, not to mention a few children, even the adults in the family can't help but eat a belly round, and the little grandson of Uncle Chu's family is still shouting that he will eat it at noon!

To say that the Chu family is very satisfied with this breakfast, it is not, at least Grandma Chu's expression is very subtle, although the food is really delicious, she has also eaten a lot, but why is it delicious, Grandma Chu thinks that it is not because of Shen Luzhu's good cooking skills, it is because she is willing to cut the ingredients, salt, sugar, five-spice powder, which of these seasonings do not cost money, not to mention the white noodles, eggs and lard and the like!

Not to mention the countrymen, even the ordinary people in the town and county do not make breakfast like this, although this meal is the first meal made by the bride when she enters the door, in order to show her skills, and the ingredients sent by her mother's family are also used, but no matter how you look at it now, Grandma Chu feels that this Shen family is a person who can't live!

Shen Luzhu didn't have time to pay attention to Grandma Chu's expression, she was now worried about the tea ceremony for a while, and she didn't prepare the gift of Uncle Chu's family at all!